MadaboutDana
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Hi there, JB,
At first I thought Graham was being a little rough on you, but having visited the website: phew! What a load of, well, "interesting" claims! Apart from anything else, I don't like enthu...
Tree for MacOS
7/19/2011
Liked the review, Steve, really hit the spot. I was particularly impressed by the way that you can open up the horizontal outline for just one vertically listed item at a time - that's unique, I think...
iPad software (upcoming): LiquidText
7/4/2011
Anything by Readdle tends to be well-conceived, to be honest.
Another app I forgot to mention is Save2PDF, which gives you a built-in PDF printer so you can save anything on your iPad as a PDF file. ...
iPad software (upcoming): LiquidText
7/4/2011
Yes, you're right. I generally read Google Reader stuff on my PC, but on the iPad I regularly use:
---BBC News (excellent!)
---Feedly (also excellent)
---Fluent News Reader (not bad, but not particula...
Noteliner adds tables
7/4/2011
Thanks, John/Steve, for the heads-up. That's rather impressive - tables appears to be an alternative way of lining up items and sub-items. The fact that you can fold rows within a table is particularl...
iPad software (upcoming): LiquidText
7/4/2011
Sorry, Ken, just spotted this. Ah, don't get me started on the iPad, I've played with such a lot of stuff, and so much of it is really not very good, or could be really good but just doesn't quite hav...
Tree for MacOS
6/30/2011
Just stumbled across a rather smart little outliner application for Mac (totally random discovery!). Although it's nothing particularly special, it does have one interesting peculiarity: it doesn't ju...
iPad software (upcoming): LiquidText
6/30/2011
Oh, that is fascinating! Thanks for posting this - it's why I love touchscreens, and also love what Apple have done with Numbers (which already allows a significant degree of freedom in manipulating o...
Damn you! Damn you, Moriaty! Yes, I CRIMPed out, too! The shame!
I haven't used UltraRecall for years (I was a very early adopter, but found I never really used it properly). It's certainly made stri...
Smereka TreeProjects updated
6/13/2011
No, I don't think you can, unfortunately - no copy 'n' paste option, for example. You can import HTML files with images, however, in which case they will be embedded very efficiently in the note. But ...
Smereka TreeProjects updated
6/11/2011
Hi folks - just a quick note to let you know that Smereka TreeProjects (http://personaldatabase.org/) has recently been updated to version 1.0.4. This introduces a rather elegant template concept, whe...
Hardware CRIMP?
6/2/2011
Currently there's only one solution: re-read stuff, carefully.
Grammar checkers etc. can do quite a good job of alerting you to a potential issue - the Word grammar checker is actually quite good - b...
Hardware CRIMP?
6/1/2011
My apologies for using the phrase "quite cool" twice. Once is barely acceptable - twice is... well, twice is not good.
Nevertheless, using your iPad as a second screen - even though it's a ridiculous...
Hardware CRIMP?
6/1/2011
I'm fortunate enough to have a netbook and an iPad (with BlueTooth keyboard). The latter is by far the most fun, but the former is, in certain respects, more practical. Much depends on what you have t...
Software for Authors
5/19/2011
Looks pretty cool, I must say.
Blimey, I've got a seriously bad case, then... and it's going to get worse. I've been playing with news readers FlipBoard, Zite, Pulse and SkyGrid on the iPad, and now I'm looking for an information m...
I've just discovered Sense as a result of this thread, Dave - aha, looks interesting! Could it represent a first step to a genuinely semantic info manager (i.e. one that doesn't need tags, because it ...
Software for Authors
5/17/2011
As a copywriter (and translator), I'm sympathetic to the KISS argument: you just want to get words down, you don't want to faff about with lots of complex commands, structures etc.
But I do find it's...
Collaborative outlining
5/16/2011
Thanks for the ref, Alexander - looks very interesting and very attractive (not dissimilar to Vialect's Noodle), but manages to infuriate me by failing to mention 'Search' at all. Why is it that peopl...
What about:
Ultimate To-Do List (http://www.todolist.co/), syncs with Toodledo, supports subtasks etc. Works on either smartphone or tablet (with special tablet view).
MLO sounds perfect, too, excep...
Collaborative outlining
5/10/2011
You're quite right, Alexander - and yes, we're running the latest release here, as a matter of fact.
Much slimmed down, still with one significant flaw (which I've made them aware of to the extent t...
The wonderful Numbers
5/5/2011
I guess it's all down to horses for courses. I've experimented with dozens of different task/project management apps, and I've found that there's a real trade-off between bells and whistles and total ...
The wonderful Numbers
5/5/2011
Yes, you can, Numbers on the Mac is much more powerful than Numbers on the iPad. The mistake is to think of Numbers as in any way equivalent to Excel - it isn't, it works in a fundamentally different ...
The wonderful Numbers
5/5/2011
Okay, I've done it - I feel a little embarrassed, a little dirty, even a little childish. But yes, I've gone and got an iPad.
And promptly experimented with n billion apps, most of which are nowhere ...
Could I just mention a quite nice hierarchical to-do solution: Task List Guru (free) and its big brother Swift To-Do List (both from www.dextronet.com). Good, sensible design. Only downside: no networ...